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Patented Apr, 29, 1884.

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No. 297,746. Patented Apr. 29, 1884.

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COMBINED BUTTON-LAP AN EORGE BOXLEY, OF TROY, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF T0 GEORGE P. DE BRUCE & 00., or SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part; of Letters Patent No. 297,746, dated April 29, 1884:.

' Application filed January 21, 1884. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE BOX'LEY, of the city of Troy, county of Rensselaer, State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Combined Button-Laps and Staying-Pieces for Garment Slit-Openings, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of attachments which are applied to the slit-openings of garments, and more particularly to the backopenings and side sleeve-openings of shirts, the object and purpose ofwhich attachments are to produce a fly-lap for button-com nection, and to secure the terminal end of the slit so as to prevent it from being ruptured at that point.

Accompanying this specification and forming a part of it there are two sheets of draw-' ings, containing four figures illustrating my invention, with the same designation of parts used inall of them.

Of these illustrations, Figure 1 shows the form of the strip used to, produce my invention by its form and attachment. Fig. 2 illustrates the position of the strip after having been attached to each side of the garment-slit with its other edges free. Fig. 3 shows the strip as attached to form a button fly lap and stay for a shirt-back opening. Fig. 4 shows a section taken through the attached parts on the line :r w of Fig. 3, with the thickness of the parts exaggerated,to better illustrate them.

The strip and the folds produced in it, the

shirt-back and its parts, with which the strip connects, are designated by letter-reference, and the several process steps by which the said strip or placket is attached to the part of shirt-back shown are detailed and described as follows:

The letter A indicates the strip or placket, and O a portion of a shirt-back made with the opening 0, the latter being a slit, of which a c are the side edges. This strip or placket is made to gradually taper from one end to the other, and is made of sufficient length to form in continuity the outer facing of the under lap, the outer and inner facing of the button fly lap, and the staying tab-end below the slit.

To attach the strip or placket, the two reversing cross-folds m m are made in it, so as to produce the three facing-folds F F F, and the staying tab-end T. As it is thus folded, the strip is placed as shown in Fig. 1, in which position the edges of the facing-folds F F upon one of the adjacent edges of each are sewed, as indicated at S, and then turned on the line of such union to produce the outer and inner. facing of the fly when applied with the parts. appearing as indicated at Fig. 2. When this has been done, the free edges of the strip-folds F F are turned in coincidently with the edges of the slit and sewed thereto, as shown at S of the strip-fold F is turned in and sewed to the shirt-back, as indicated at S. The free edge of the strip-fold F is also sewed exteriorly to the shirt-back at S, the edge of the strip methods of attachment has been patented, butwhich methods and form of strip required the accumulation of an unnecessary amount of material at the top of the slit-opening, which, when laundered, made the parts stiff and difficult to button, and which aggregation of material at this point produced much discomfort to the wearer during hot weather.

By the use of a'tapering strip or placket I am enabled to secure all the accumulation of material whereit is needed to give strength to the parts, and to use less where its accumulation is objectionable. 7

While I have shown and described the use of a strip made to taper uniformly in width, if desired, that part of it which, when folded, produces the outer facing of the underlap and that forming the inner facing of the buttonfiy or overlap may be made to have less taper than that fold which produces the outer facing of the latter and the tab-end stay at the bottom of the slit.

Following this the remaining free edge of a uniform width as combined with various Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. In combination with the slipopening of a garment, the tapering strip or placket A, made in one piece that is oppositely folded to produce the facings F F F with the adjacent edges of the facing-folds F F on one side united, as shown, and the remaining free edge of the fold F sewed to one side of the slit, and the free edge of said fold Fto the garment exterior, with the facing-fold F on its inner edge sewed to the adjacent edge of the slit, and its other edge to the garment exterior, and with said connected parts cross-sewed to the garment and to each other below the slit, as described.

2. In a combined button lap and stay for garment slitopenings, the combination of the strip or placket A, made in one piece and reversely folded to produce the facing-folds F F F and tab-end stay '1, the stitching. S, uniting on one of their sides the edges of the folds F F the stitching S S*, connecting said foldfacings F F to the edge of the slit-opening and the exterior of the garment, the stitching S S, uniting the said facing-fold F to one side of the slit and to the garment exterior, the eross'stitching S". joining said connected folds to the garment and to each other below the slit, and the stitching S, uniting said tab end stay to the garment below the slit, as shown.

3. In a button fly lap and stay for garment slit-openings. the combination of the tapering strip or placket A, made in one piece, the re- 

